Status of GNOME sysadmin work

From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>

To: gnome-hackers gnome org

Cc:

Subject: Status of GNOME sysadmin work

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:01:26 -0400

Just wanted to quickly update people on where we are with all
the recent changes on gnome.org:
* The move of the gnome.org servers to Red Hat headquarters
from the colocation facility is finshed.
* We've upgraded the mail and web servers to much nicer
machines. (both dual 2.8Ghz PIV xeon, 2G memory).
(A third identical machine will be added shortly to
act as a database backend)
* Mailman has been upgraded to 2.1.
* We're now nfs exporting home directories across all the
servers. This mostly affects the small group of people
who can log into multiple machines.
* We've moved to a LDAP user database; again this should
be pretty invisible to users, but makes adminstration
simpler.
* We've switched from passwords to SSH keys for login
authentication. If you have a login account, you should
have gotten a mail with instructions for providing
an SSH key. Those with login accounts can also start
using these keys for CVS currently, we'll be migrating
the rest of the CVS users over the next few weeks.
Known regressions:
* Some blogs are not working currently; I think this
is basically people needing to rearrange their homedir
contents or change homedirs permissions after the
great homedir consolodation.
* Private archives aren't working on mail.gnome.org.
* post-only gnome org isn't working currently.
* CVS and login account addition at the moment is a bit
clumsy, so may continue to be a bit slow.
If you find anything else please let us (gnome-sysadmin gnome org)
know.
Regards,
Owen

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